Free SF, Fantasy and Horror Fiction for 3/26/2013
Many thanks to Dave Tackett and his mischievous QuasarDragon for some delicious links, as well as his offer to provide me with low-cost electroshock therapy involving a golf cart battery and homemade clamps. I have no idea how he lost his license to practice everything.
What’s special about today’s free fiction?
- Baen features a short story from Charles E. Gannon: “To Spec”
- Black Gate has “Waters of Darkness” by David C. Smith and Joe Bonadonna
- Perihelion March 2013
- World SF Blog has “Case Notes of a Witchdoctor” from South African author Nick Wood
- BBC releases Episode One of Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – available for audio download for a limited time only
Written
- @Baen: “To Spec” by Charles E. Gannon [Science Fiction]
- @Black Gate: “Waters of Darkness” by David C. Smith and Joe Bonadonna [Fantasy]
- @Cosmos: “Henry Fairfield” by Barton Paul Levenson [Science Fiction]
- @The Colored Lens: “Feeding the Dragon” by Timothy Mudie [Urban Fantasy]
- @Daily Science Fiction: “Pythian Games” by Tom Doyle [Historical Fantasy Flash]
- @Mad Scientist Journal: “Artist Killed in Mysterious Affray” by Conor Powers-Smith [Time Travel]
- Perihelion March 2013: [Science Fiction]
- “Silicon and Solitude” by Shane D. Rhinewald
- “Expedition of the Arcturus” by JZ Murdock
- “Nude Bargain” by Olga Godim
- “Dirtsiders on Cinnabar” by Patrick Lundrigan
- “Pulped!” by Tom Tinney
- “History of Humanity’s First Alien Contact in the Year 2023” by Eric M. Jones
- “Space Cadets of the Apocalypse” by Dave Fragments
- “Illegal Alien” by Betsy Streeter
- “A Tangle of Brilliance” by Charles Barouch
- @The WiFiles: “God’s Great Acrimony” by D. C. Golightly [Horror]
- @World SF Blog: “Case Notes of a Witchdoctor” by Nick Wood [South Africa]
Written – Flash
- @365 tomorrows: [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Ascensual” by Daniel Martin Fairbairn
- “Burial Details” by Jae Miles
- “Containment” by Javen J.
- “The End of the Extinction” by Isla Kay
- “Fight Fan Love” by Michael F. da Silva
- “Forgiveness Day” by Clint Wilson
- “Hard Right” by Duncan Shields
- @Daily Science Fiction:
- “Jimmy Smith Has a Dinosaur” by Gregg Chamberlain [Speculative Humor Flash]
- “Skipping Stones” by Devin Miller [Science Fiction Flash]
- “Subject AT-171” by Melissa Mead [Twisted Fairy Tale Flash]
- @Every Day Fiction: “Murder by Plastic” by Phil Slattery [Horror Flash]
Written – Serialized
- @Author’s Site: Jaydium by Deborah J. Ross, writing as Deborah Wheeler: [Fantasy]
Audio
- Beam Me Up: [Science Fiction]
- Cast of Wonders #72 – “The Dun Horse” by Edward Ahern [YA Fantasy]
- Journey Into #65 – “Knock” by Frediric Brown [Science Fiction]
- @Ministry of Peculiar Occurences: Tales from the Archives, Volume 2 – “All That Glitters” by Dan Rabarts [Steampunk]
- Pseudopod #326 – “Bunraku” by David X. Wiggin [Horror]
- Toasted Cake #64 – “Don’t Look Down” by Anatoly Belilovsky [Science Fiction]
Audio – Serialized
- @BBC: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman – Episode One – London Below [Urban Fantasy]
- Cthulhu #145 – The House on the Borderland – Parts 20 & 21 by William Hope Hodgson [Horror]
Free eBooks (at time of listing)
- @Amazon:
- Blood Life by Gianna Perada [Paranormal Fantasy Novel]
- Cobbogoth by Hannah L. Clark [Epic Fantasy Novel]
- Infinite Sacrifice (Infinite Series, Book 1) by L.E. Waters [Historical Fantasy Novel – First of Series]
- “The Magic of Windlier Wood” (The Adventures of Newert) by N. R. Williams [Fantasy Short Story]
- @Project Gutenberg: Vathek by William Beckford [Gothic Novel – from 1849]
Excerpts
- @Gollancz: Extract from Gateway of the Saviours by AJ Dalton [Epic Fantasy]
- @Tor:
- Excerpt from Furious by Jill Wolfson [YA Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Grail of the Summer Stars by Freda Warrington [Epic Fantasy]
- Excerpt from Protector by C. J. Cherryh [Science Fiction]
- Excerpt from Stung by Bethany Wiggins [YA Science Fiction]
- Excerpt from You Know What You Have To Do by Bonnie Shimko [YA Psychological Horror]
Other
- @Tor: “The Titular Hero” by M.K. Reed and Jonathan Hill [Fantasy Comic]
